hilal isler
writer. midwest.
turkish roots.
I’m a creative writer in the Twin Cities, where I serve as a lead communications strategist at the University of Minnesota. In the spring of 2023, I was named a McKnight Foundation fellow in creative prose. Alexander Chee was the judge.
Sometimes I teach college courses in social justice. My doctorate is from Penn.
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I am founding editor of the Hennepin Review.
I’ve been awarded residency at Yaddo, and MacDowell. I was a 2019 Roxane Gay writing fellow with the Jack Jones Literary Arts Association, and a 2022 Periplus Collective fellow, under the mentorship of Dina Nayeri.
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*nominated: PEN/ROBERT J. DAU SHORT STORY PRIZE , 2021 | 2021 |
